She decided to piece together the hands into one work.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

It will surface back up in another piece of work or another idea at some point in your life.

在某个时刻，旧点子会以另一种形式重新出现,或者另一个想法在会出现在你的生活中。

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So in a sense it tells you this work of art is of a piece with what you already know; it's familiar in those ways, and you shouldn't be afraid of it.

在某种程度上,这告诉了你这件艺术作品,其实是你早已认识的东西;,你已经通过那些方式了解了它，不用怕它。

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He says this piece of work is more about the melting ice of the Arctic than polar bears.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!

人类是一件多么了不起的杰作，多么高贵的理性，多么无穷的力量，多么优雅的仪表,多么端庄的举止，行为像天使，智慧像天神！

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Democratic strategist and Louisiana resident James Carville: "I know this: every piece of information we have gotten to the size of this, or things that were going to work, none of it has turned out to be true."

VOA: standard.2010.05.31

We want to be more--a bit more sophisticated than that, if you will, and use other terms, so we'll talk generally about Beethoven's composition or Beethoven's piece or Beethoven's work or his master work or chef d'oeuvre or however fancy you want to get with it.

我们想用些更精确的词藻,用其他措辞表现,我们一般会说贝多芬的音乐创作,或贝多芬的乐章,贝多芬的乐曲,他的杰作,或名曲,或是任何你想到的花哨词汇称呼它

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